TY  - GEN
AB  - Form and Therapy provides a new account of the practical purpose and corresponding limits of Kant’s moral philosophy. I argue that the practical purpose of Kant’s Categorical Imperative is not to supply a test or decision-procedure for the derivation of concrete duties, but to provide the resources for a therapeutic way of reflecting. This therapeutic reflection makes explicit the true form of practical judgment that has been obscured by opposing inclinations. Getting clear about the practical purpose of Kant’s moral philosophy opens up a new way of critically engaging with Kant’s ethics: it allows us to see it as more coherent from the early Groundwork up to the late Metaphysics of Morals, to dispense with some spurious objections to Kant’s ethics, and also to better understand the challenge of ‘formalism’ in Kant’s moral philosophy.
AD  - University of Chicago
AU  - Ramsauer, Laurenz
DA  - 2024-08
DO  - 10.6082/uchicago.12780
DO  - doi
ED  - Candace Vogler
ED  - Matthias Haase
ED  - Matthew Boyle
ED  - Stephen Engstrom
ID  - 12780
L1  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Form%20and%20Therapy.pdf
L1  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Ramsauer%20Department%20Approval%20Form%20August%202024.pdf
L2  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Form%20and%20Therapy.pdf
L2  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Ramsauer%20Department%20Approval%20Form%20August%202024.pdf
L4  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Form%20and%20Therapy.pdf
L4  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Ramsauer%20Department%20Approval%20Form%20August%202024.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Form%20and%20Therapy.pdf
LK  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Ramsauer%20Department%20Approval%20Form%20August%202024.pdf
N2  - Form and Therapy provides a new account of the practical purpose and corresponding limits of Kant’s moral philosophy. I argue that the practical purpose of Kant’s Categorical Imperative is not to supply a test or decision-procedure for the derivation of concrete duties, but to provide the resources for a therapeutic way of reflecting. This therapeutic reflection makes explicit the true form of practical judgment that has been obscured by opposing inclinations. Getting clear about the practical purpose of Kant’s moral philosophy opens up a new way of critically engaging with Kant’s ethics: it allows us to see it as more coherent from the early Groundwork up to the late Metaphysics of Morals, to dispense with some spurious objections to Kant’s ethics, and also to better understand the challenge of ‘formalism’ in Kant’s moral philosophy.
PB  - University of Chicago
PY  - 2024-08
T1  - Form and Therapy: Kant on the Purpose and Limits of Moral Philosophy
TI  - Form and Therapy: Kant on the Purpose and Limits of Moral Philosophy
UR  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Form%20and%20Therapy.pdf
UR  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12780/files/Ramsauer%20Department%20Approval%20Form%20August%202024.pdf
Y1  - 2024-08
ER  -